A DEVIL REBORN
Happy Halloween!!! A detailed ID will be placed under the cut (it's close to being 1K i could literally post this to Ao3)
p1. ड्याम्म (dyamma) - Nepali for "(feeling) full", "hitting something"
p3. Chutiya - Hindi for "idiot", "moron" and other related insults
p5. க்ரீச் (kreech) - Tamil onomatopoeia describing scraping/screeching sounds
[Extended Image ID: DYAMMA! Slamming his hands on a table, Achanba Okram finds himself in the darkness of his laboratory. He is wearing black clothes and a white lab coat on top, and has a bowl cut with rectangular glasses.
His thoughts whirl within boxes that are coloured gold and are outlined with red; they put a voice to the uneasy feelings Okram knows are stirring inside of him. The thought boxes read:
With Pavitr gone, I finally have time to string my thoughts together. Half-drowned answers bleed out of my pores. Coalescing like some great, abysmal creature of unknown origin.
Bracing his hands against the table, Okram is acutely aware of his body, of the gaping holes in his back that bubble with demonic energy. His thoughts narrate, My body quakes when I begin to question, wracked with paranoia. With dread, as if the idea of what I had to face was unbearable.
The holes in back — four of them, spaced evenly from each other — begin to ooze golden liquid, hot like fire and viscous like tar.
And yet, Okram thinks, I felt it all the same: that crawling, scintillating horror of my reality. Of my tainted flesh and blood. My being here is the work of demonic forces.
Golden arms, fluid yet bony, powered by some otherworldly thing, unravel from the void in his back. They flounder and expand around him, filling the lab with a cold glow. The fingers are tipped with talons, and, if he looked hard enough, Okram swears they are edged with blood.
I died years ago, Okram thinks. I lost my humanity to the fire of the devil's madness. Thus, the question remains: what is the future of Achanba Okram, a DEVIL REBORN?
The lights of the lab suddenly brighten, and Okram hears him before he sees him. His arms register the presence of the other person, immediately unraveling and slipping out of reality. Just outside, Pavitr Prabhakar's voice calls, "HEY, DOCTOR OKRAM! Sorry I'm late! Traffic was abysmal today."
Pavitr's entrance catches Okram by surprise, and he stutters out, "PAVITR?! You- ah- you have one of your shifts today?"
His thoughts reprimand him, You CHUTIYA! Pavitr always has his shifts on Tuesdays!
Pavitr is unaware of Okram's turmoil, sauntering into the laboratory while hefting up a white plastic bag. He's wearing a black and white flannel shirt, and he has circular earrings. Pavitr's eyes are trained on the bag in his hand. He answers Okram's question with, "Yeah, I do. I, uh, got a little hungry along the way (I'm always so hungry)." Pavitr whispers the last part as he lifts the bag up. He continues, "so I went and bought some vada pav, and—"
He suddenly pauses, his eyes locking onto Okram. He can't tell what is going beyond Pavitr's eyes, but the other man's analysing gaze unnerves Okram to a degree beyond description.
(In Pavitr's POV: his Spider-Sense was just triggered. Red and gold squiggly lines emanate from and surround his head in a halo.)
Pavitr lowers the bag slightly in concern. "Uhm," Pavitr says "are you okay, Doctor?"
Dread and fear floods Okram's system. Suddenly he is hyperaware of everything in the room, including the golden arm that has sprouted from his back and was lying on the workbench behind him, right in Pavitr's line of sight.
Play dumb! Okram's mind screams at him. Accordingly, Okram replies, a tad too tightly, "Of course I am, Pavitr! Why wouldn't I be?"
KREECH. The golden arm scrapes its taloned fingers across the table, no doubt giving away its location.
Okram chuckles nervously, sweating almost immediately, at which his mind howls, Not that dumb!
Pavitr narrows his eyes at Okram and at the golden arm on the workbench. "Are those...demonic arms?" he asks Okram, a shadow crossing his face.
(In Pavitr's POV: In the back of his mind, Pavitr sees a vague and faded image forming in response to seeing the arms. He remembers Doctor Octopus, the man with two extra sets of arms who had attacked him many years ago; he was one of the first villains Pavitr fought as Spider-Man. But... Doctor Octopus died a long time ago. Perhaps...?)
"Oh, Doctor..."
Pavitr's gaze softens as he asks, "Are you being haunted by demons? Have you been attacked by them? Why didn't you tell me? I'm so sorry this has been happening to you. I can't imagine how stressful this is for you." A moment, and then, "Do you want to talk about?"
Okram hides his face in his hands, quickly responding, "No, I'm alright, Pavitr."
Pavitr walks forward, placing his bag down and reaching down to place a reassuring hand on Okram's shoulder. "But, Doctor, men of your generation have ignored their mental health for too long."
"Yes, I know," Okram sighs.
"It'll be okay, Doctor," Pavitr promises, "we can figure something out!"
"And what?" Okram asks somewhat sarcastically. "You will be here with me 'every step of the way'?"
"One hundred percent!" Pavitr says.
Behind them, one of Okram's demonic arms reaches out to peer at Pavitr and Okram; if an arm could be happy, it certainly was. The arm is seemingly pleased with Pavitr's helpful and understanding nature. /.End ID]
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Guys that wasn't Pavitr's canon event
Miguel says that one of the spiders' canon events is "The death of a police captain close to you on the hands of your (or one of your) nemesis". The disaster wasn't caused by Pavitr's nemesis, but Miles'. The disaster was caused by Spot, and he isn't from Pavitr's universe. Therefore, that being Pavitr's canon event makes no sense. Miguel would be just contradicting himself by saying it is
So, if that wasn't Pavitr's canon event, then Miles wouldn't be the one at fault for Pav's dimension crumbling. Besides, we've seen what a universe dying looked like because of Miguel's flashback, and the "glitches" in Pavitr's universe resemble more Spot's holes than that. So Pavitr's universe disappearing would be a consequence of Spot breaking into that universe and absorbing the energy from the Collider of that universe
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Question about Canon Events…
Ok so, it’s established that each Spider has to go through the loss of a police captain that’s close to them, that’s a canon event. And we see Miles save Inspector Singh from dying during the collapse of the Alchemax building, but in doing so, causes Mumbattan to start crumbling because he interrupted a canon event. So here’s my question…
Do these police captains have to die in a certain situation? Or can they die at any given time? Because if they have to die in a certain situation, that kind negates the point that Miguel was making of “Miles is an anomaly, Spot shouldn’t have existed”; because the fact that Spot causes the collapse of the Alchemax building, he put that canon event in motion for Pavitr. That event wouldn’t have happened if Miles and Spot weren’t there in the first place.
The second part to the question is…can they fix the canon if the police captain does not have to die under specific circumstances? In theory, if Inspector Singh dies sometime down the road after the Spot fight, would that fix the canon and put Mumbattan back to its original state? I know they had a team of Spiders that went to try and stabilize the collapse of Pavitr’s dimension, but they really didn’t explain what they were doing to prevent further damage.
It’s not super clear on how these canon events are supposed to take place. I promise this is not a critique of the plot, I’m just super curious if they’re going to explain what the rules are of these canon events! They are supposed to happen, but under what circumstances? I’m very interested in knowing if Pavitr’s world can be saved…
If any of y’all have any answers or theories, please let me know. Or maybe I missed something, don’t be afraid to correct me!
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hey guys, question for the atsv fans: does Pavitr know about canon events? when we first see him he clearly doesn't; he probably isn't even part of the spider society (he doesn't have a watch, wich is important even when he's in his universe as a way to communicate with other spiderpeople), but after his universe falls apart we see him only in the very last scene, where he has joined Gwen's team to save Miles. but the question is, between that two scenes, has he found out about canon events? and if he did, why would he go to save Miles, knowing that he is probably the cause of his universe's collapse? the thing is either Pav still doesn't know anything about canon, or he has joined Gwen's team with a second purpose (let your imagination decide why)
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